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Taranaki Herald, Volume II, Issue 96, 31 May 1854, Page 2

Signs op \V/\n.— Many Russian Captains at this port hacc sold tliolr aliips, and returned to their own country with the money. Thin speaks volumes as to the Russian belief m tho warlike designs of tho Czar.— l'lymouth Timea. Huge Np.w Ship. — The Marlborough, 131. screw, is bein|j rnpidly built at Portsmouth. Thin immenss structure may be truly colled tho Great Marlborough. Evory day tells upon her, na ohe becomeo plunked, i» discovering her beautiful mould. Her run and counter are particularly hands'imo ; her bow sufficiently sharp, with the least hollow ; nnd although so handsome, she is of enormous strength, The reienoe of tho dny has been brought into requisition. Her sides, tailing tho outer nnd inner planking with the timbers, nro nearly 2 fcot 7 inches m thickness. She is also tied together with diagonal iron braces, besides the iron stringing. Allogctlior she will be the largest, the hundsomext, nnd the most poworful manofwar that this or any other country has over built, being at tho least 400 tans larger than the Duko of Wellington. Tiir; Leviathan.— We learn from good authority that Donald M'Kay, Enq. is about netting up a vast fabric of ten thousand tons, to be called tho Leviathan, to bu built at Boston. Shonld he carry out his intentions tho world will never have »een the equal of this gigantic ship, to which the Great Republic will bo as a schooner to a thousand ton clipper. Truly there seoms no limits to improvements m the art of shipbuilding:.— San Fraticisco Commercial Advertiser. Jan. 23.